Michael Singer: jai guru dev, jai masters. People think that the spiritual path is this mystical, otherworldly thing. It’s not true. It’s very worldly why you have to start from where you’re at. It’s not some ideal that you make up or somebody convinces you of. But you’re still anchored with all the issues that you have, all the problems that drives the desires, the fears, the insecurities, et cetera.
They’re real, they’re there. Those are to keeping from being spiritual, not some ideal that you have, and then trying to achieve it while leaving that stuff down there. True spirituality and deep people understand things like that. When you start, it’s like, oh, this is exciting. I’ll see lights and go places and astral travel.
Boy, I can do neat stuff. Okay? And it’s all about your beliefs and your this and that. You are gonna find out, there’s only so far you can go before you hit your head because you’re carrying this anger with you and it’s real, right? The psyche is real. I mean, it’s as real as thoughts can be. And until you work with yourself and raise yourself, it’s been said that unless all of you goes, none of you goes, that’s not true of the short-term growth.
You can get some short-term jump and have an experience and can be excited and tell people about it. Oh my God, I saw the light. I saw a like hustle saw. Okay, but you ain’t gonna keep seeing the light. You’re gonna see the darkness. Why? Because you have stuff inside of you that is holding you down. It is not natural stuff.
It does not have to be there. It was not there in the beginning, but in the beginning, down in not So your birth, in the beginning is in the beginning, God created heaven and earth. The beanie’s way back there, you know, Adam and Eve type stuff before the ate the apple. It’s all real. You are a pure being.
You’re pure light man was created in the image of God. I. The Kingdom is within you. Everything is taught is true. That’s who you are. The depth of your being is the greatest thing ever walked face of the earth. Christ has nothing on you, bud has nothing on you. And they said so like that. Sounds like that’s blasphemy.
No, Christ said. As I say, for the throne on my father, that’s enlightenment. That’s not a seat of gold. It’s a seat of consciousness. As I sit by the seat of my father, so you shall sit by my side and these things, which I do, you should do these and even greater things. You’re a great being. What’s wrong?
Until you fix what’s wrong? You have no right to try and go somewhere is when you’re anchored with the issues and the issues are not complicated. The entire spiritual path is about, it’s not about doing and not doing. It’s about noticing. Are you capable of noticing what it’s like in there? Not what you want it to be like in there.
Now, what You’re afraid, can you just notice what it is like inside? In most people’s case, that is like a foreign language. First of all. Where’s inside and who’s noticing and noticing what? Until you can answer those three things, not, not answer them until you are them, you’re not going anywhere. It doesn’t matter what your concept and views and opinions and hopes and dreams.
They’re just thoughts. Real growth is, are you in there? I always ask you, that’s a starting position. It’s like a pilot about to take off with a checklist. Okay? Are you in there? How do you know? Don’t answer that question ever. I am that. I am that I am. I know that. I know that. I know. If I wasn’t in here, I wouldn’t know you were talking to me.
It is very simple. You know you are in there, is in there your hand? No, I in here. See? My hand is in there. The other person who you love so much. No, I’m in here seeing the other person and seeing love. I’m in here, aren’t I? How long you been in there? Were you in there yesterday? You sure? Were you in there when you were 10 years old when you looked in the mirror?
When you were 10 years old? Did you in there see an image in the mirror? Did it look like, it looks now, wasn’t it? You looking? You’ve been in there the whole time you’re in there. So that’s the first checklist. Check I’m in there. Two. What’s it like in there? Not what I want it to be like, not what’s it supposed to be like?
What? Is it like in there? That’s called noticing. Can you just notice because that’s your highest state, that’s your entire path. And the answer is, of course you can’t because you don’t like what it’s like in there, right? And so you’re busy in there trying to change things, but we’ll get there in a minute.
Alright, so you’re in there. Check. Is there an in there? Are there things going on in there? Are there thoughts? Yes or no? Okay. I would like to go to some quantum physicist and say, here’s the quantum field. Here’s atoms, electron neutrons, protons, molecules, DNA. Where are the thoughts? And he or she is gonna kind of look at you and say, that’s not my field called study psychology.
Right? They’re there, you do have thoughts, do you not? You don’t need to prove it. You have flaws? Do you have emotions? Are you sure? You sure you have emotions? I got these feelings that come up and mesh up. Can they feel good? Can they feel bad? Is this the kind of feeling we’re talking about? Tactile feeling?
No. No. You have feelings inside. So there’s an in there. Wow. Look how fast we’re getting there. All right. First, you are in there noticing that there’s an in there. I should send you home. You’re practically enlightened when Christ said the kingdom is within you. That’s what’s being talked about. There’s an in you.
I sure don’t look like the kingdom to me, right? But at least we know there’s an in there. Who knows? There’s an in there. Me. I’m the one who notices that there are thoughts. I notice their emotions. How hard is it for you to notice there are thoughts? I wish it was harder. It’s not hard at all, is it? They make themselves known to you.
There’s a consciousness and awareness of being that is aware that there are thoughts in there. Wherever in there is. We haven’t said that right, and is aware that there are emotions in there. Then the next question comes up, which is very straightforward. Now that you’re noticing, which I told you, most people are not capable of noticing.
They’re reacting. They’re reacting to the thoughts. They’re not noticing the thoughts. Obviously, they must have noticed them, but it happens so fast. Like if somebody takes a swing at you or something after comes flying at you, you don’t first notice and then do something about it. You do something about it.
There’s an instinctual reaction. You’re doing the same thing inside. Thoughts attack you. They come up and bam, you’re reacting. What do I do about this, about this? I don’t like this. I like this. I, I, but you react to your thoughts and you sure as heck react to your emotions. Have you ever felt like emotions were attacking you?
Have you ever tried to make them go away? Do you interact to you in there? Right? But you interact defensively. They’re doing one of two things in there now that you notice. Notice means I’m centered. I’m clear. I can just, no, very zen. I can just notice Zen talks about just being, how about just noticing?
I’m aware that this thought came up okay. That means there are thoughts and it means I’m in here. That’s the end of it. No, I don’t think so. I’m aware that this emotion came up. I’m in here and I’m aware. Very good. That’s not how we live in there. Most people do not live like that in there. The minute the thought comes up, the minute the emotion comes up, there’s this reaction.
So you in there is not able to handle experiencing what you’re experiencing without doing something about it. The very few thoughts that ever come into your mind that you don’t deal with, that you don’t think you have to do something about, well, you’re sitting in mind in your own business. You look at him saying, what’s he thinking about me?
Right. You don’t just let that go. One reaction is to think about what he’s thinking about you. The other is to have an emotional reaction of insecurity. The other is to s smile on him so that you can control what he’s thinking of you. You’re busy doing or you’re not. You’re busy in there. You’re busy as could be reacting to what’s in there.
That is your inner world. That’s where you live and that’s what’s going on. That is the beginning of your spiritual path. If you don’t start with that, I’m telling you, you’re not gonna go anywhere. If I wanna go to New York and I’m in Gainesville, I better start with the map in Gainesville, not Atlanta.
But Atlanta’s closer. I, I don’t care, but I can get better food on the way. I don’t care what your mind has to say. You have to start from where you’re at. If you don’t start from where you’re at, you left this gap and the gap’s gonna collapse. That gap is what Christ meant by don’t build your house on sand.
You can’t just imagine something because the rest of you’s not there. You didn’t take you with you. You have to take you with you. If you wanna go to New York, you better be in the car because even if the car goes there, you ain’t going. So that’s, I’m stressing this now. ’cause spiritual people, new age people, they don’t think like this.
They say, oh, I just go to God. No you won’t. There’s an anchor in there and you gotta deal with it. And that’s called spiritual growth. Alright, so you’re in there. You notice there’s stuff in there with you, thoughts and emotions. Okay. There’s something else in there, which most of you out here may have noticed it.
There’s an energy flow. Not your thought, not an emotion. A thought is something that talks to you or visualizes, it’s in your head. You can see it. An emotion comes up from your heart. It’s an energy field that doesn’t talk alright. It feels, you feel it, but then there’s this flow of energy that’s sometimes you feel and sometimes you don’t.
Like. You can say, my thoughts are bothering me, or boy, I have wonderful thoughts today, or my emotions that feel so good, or they feel terrible. But sometimes you can say, I have no energy. Or I’m just filled with Shakti. We use the word Shakti, yoga. That’s the word for that energy. Inner energy. You have inner energy, don’t you?
And sometimes it’s there and sometimes it’s not there. And sometimes it’s so high you don’t know what words to use. And sometimes it’s so low that you couldn’t talk if you tried busy crying. Too busy messed up. Those are not emotions. I’ll explain to you the differently. An emotion and the energy flow is they’re very close.
They’re related. Everything’s interacting in there. But you have these three things in there. You have thoughts, you have emotions, and you have Shakti have energy flow, and you can have lack of energy and we can have abundance of energy. But the point is, when you’re high in energy, do you feel it? How real do you wanna talk?
I wanna feel better. I need something from outside to change my interstate. Do you ever do things outside to make it change your interstate? Of course you do. That’s your whole life. That’s your whole life. Either something outside makes you feel better inside, something outside makes you feel worse inside.
Which one do you wanna do? A normal human being, which you do not want to be. One of those, all right? Is constantly, every moment of their life attempting to manipulate and control the outside so it feels better inside. Or doesn’t feel worse either way. Either non-negative, less negative, or more positive every moment what movie you wanna go see?
Let me think about which one I think will make me feel better. Well, I don’t know. I saw something else that he starred in and I didn’t like it. I don’t wanna go there. Every single thing you’re doing, do you wanna marry her? Well, I like when she’s like this. What does that mean when she, this outside object is behaving?
Which way? The way my inside likes, I don’t wanna marry him. I like ’em. I wanna hang out with ’em. When the outside object behaves or says a word, it’s just a word. The tone of the word. Makes my inside not feel good or feel good. I need to manipulate the situation so that what’s going on out there when it comes in makes me feel better.
Alright, so we started off with the in there check. Are there thoughts, anything in there with you? You have thoughts and emotions? Okay, check. We got this things energy. We got this stuff in there right now we’re gonna talk about. How do you like it in there when you’re living in there? Well, just like I like it anywhere else, wherever I’m living.
I like it to be nice. If I wanna go on a vacation, I have to be all screwed up. Fires and floods and tornadoes and no. So you’re in there, you live in there, and you have to deal with what it’s like in there. And the way you’ve learned to do that is for the outside world to be away so that when it comes into me, it makes me feel better.
Does it do that? Can it make you feel worse? Can it make you feel really, really good? Can it make you feel really, really bad? Can things happen outside that when they come inside traumatize you? That’s a word they use in psychology. What does that mean? It caused it to be so bad inside that it never went away being bad.
This is what it means to understand who you are and what’s going on. Can that happen? Why outside is outside. Let’s say you had your eyes closed when the event took place. You didn’t even see it didn’t bother you when Iota, but if it got in there, it can cause havoc in there, yes or no. And you don’t like that, do you?
Why? Because that’s your house. You live in here. Some people sit there, say the body’s the house of the soul. Yes, the body and not just the physical body, the emotional body. The mental body is where you live. And I don’t blame you. You want it to be nice in there. Of course, you want it to be nice in there.
Why would you not want it to be nice in there? You live in the house and it’s filled with roaches and rats and pizza crust and, and spiderwebs. Who wants to live in there? But if it’s clean and nice, you like it. But it’s the same thing inside, having a serious talk here. But notice I’m not using the God word, but I really am.
I’m sneaking up on you. This when I’m discussing now, this is a spiritual path. Why? Because if it’s not nice inside, I’m telling you how you’re gonna behave outside. Very manipulative, very controlling, maybe even doing terrible things to try and do something. I did 30 years of prison work in Flora’s Max security prisons.
You know where death row was and everything. They’re in for life. Their lifers, the whole thing. They’re funny people. They had situations in most cases, like 99% or whatever percent it is. They had situations that happened in their life that didn’t work out so good inside. Either they were feeling terrible, angry, resentful, jealous.
What are those feelings inside? What’s anger, a feeling inside. It’s not out there. Is it much jealousy, a feeling inside or whatever? Or their energy was so depressed. What’s that? A state of the energy inside that’s all inside. Okay. And therefore they did something reactively. Generally, not premeditated normally, but it could be.
Right. The mind could get into that state, but if you knew it was premeditated. It was the mind saying, I’m not okay and this will make me be okay. And I don’t care who it hurts. I don’t care if it’s against the law. I don’t care what’s going on. I can’t handle the state I’m in right now inside. Therefore, I need to do something outside.
Do you all understand that? I hope you do. Why? ’cause that’s what the word compassion means. It’s very different than sympathy, compassion means. I’m not condoning it. I’m not saying it’s right. I’m not judging it all. But I understand. Well, how would you understand why someone would kill somebody? They must have had some serious problems inside.
They either wanted something, so they did a robbery and somebody got killed, or they were having serious problems and they resentful against somebody. And when you can understand. But by God’s grace there goes myself as terrible. It’s to say that and you don’t like hearing me talk about it. That’s compassionate.
Go study the Dalai Lama. That’s how he talks even against the Chinese and invaded his country and were killed and burned. All the temples. He still talks like that. Why that’s compassion. Why? Why does that matter? It’s extreme. But if you can be okay inside, no matter what has happened or is happening outside, you’re always called a great being.
You transcended. The absurdity that this world outside, God, I So many places I want to go. Right. Will you come with me? It’s not even there. Look at me just for one minute. Go to your physicist that started with Aristotle. What’s out there? Why is that out there? What are the stars? What is a tree? What’s an apple?
They studied what’s out there. They tried to understand what was out, what did it, and what came from, and they look very carefully and they develop. I’ll do it very quickly. I don’t wanna do all the whole history physics for you. Alright. I would if you’d sit here and if I could. Alright, so basically they started looking very carefully and they developed instruments and they found out it’s not what it looks like.
There’s these molecules. Where everywhere is, what’s her? Pretty face molecules. What’s the wood molecules? Now, just so you understand, have you ever, I hope you have, all of you have flat screen TVs nowadays, right? You know CRTs, you have flat screen TVs. Have you ever gotten enough close enough to look and see what’s really there?
You’ll see dots. They’re called pixels. Has anybody ever done it? Okay. They’re not people running around and Tom Cruise doing things right. There’s just dots. There’s just dots. Wow, okay. Far out. But that’s how it looks like when you step back. I’m telling you, there’s just dots out there. That is what physics has found.
They started with the bigger dots called molecules. That held themselves together as dots, and then they progressed further with microscopes and stuff like that, and they said those molecules are made of something. They’re not the base element. There are these atoms. Malcolms were made up of atoms. Those, again, the pixels, see it smaller and smaller.
Pixel you get better resolution the more pixels there are. So you look down, why am I talking about this in spirituality? I said to you, you are reacting to what’s out there. There’s nothing out there stand before a periodic table. I keep going up. I didn’t, I never took any exact sciences, right? But there’s a big period table in my office.
I love the thing. Why it’s all there is. All there is is a bolo of each one of those atoms. They make the entire universe, all the stars, his shirt, his eyes, your body. No, not my body. Yeah, your body is made, I don’t know. Tiny little things, isn’t it? How can you be upset about an atom? Show me which ones you like in the period table, and which ones really freak you out.
Wake up. Spirituality is not, not science, it is science. ’cause what we’re talking about is how are you doing in there, but how you’re doing in there. We just said it’s dependent upon what’s going on out there. There is no out there ever. There’s a bunch of dots, and guess what? I’ll do it very quickly. When they looked further into the atoms, Adam used to mean the bow space.
Elements of the word means they found out uhoh. No, it’s not. It’s made of smaller things, electron, protons, every one of you studied at school, right? Okay. Nucleus, protons and neutrons and then electrons spinning around. That’s what makes an atom. And then they bond to each other. Now we’re down to nothing.
If all that’s out there is electron protons, what are you getting upset about? Why do you care then? And I’m gonna close it to this and we’ll go back up. Back up, right? No, Uhuh. There are not electron nutrient or protons. What’s smaller than that? There’s a field called a field of energy. They, they don’t say what it is.
They just call it a quantum field that spreads across the entire universe equally, it’s omnipresent everywhere. And when that field, think about like a lake, that’s still, when it gets agitated, it creates little wavelets, just like the lake would. Okay. Those wavelets have. Properties. They’re not things, they’re just energy and they have charge and color and spin and different attributes, and due to those attributes, some of them bond together with other wavelengths.
They interact together and they give names to the wavelengths within the fields. Weird names. There’s quarks, leptons, boons. They just name these things. God will go a little further in quarks. Right. What is cork? A wavelet a type of wavelet of certain properties. It’s not there no more than energy. You can’t see it.
It’s just force moving. So they gave names of an up cork, a down cork, a bottom cork, a top cork, a strange cork, and a charm cork. If two up corks interact with each other. There’s a proton. If two down corks interact together, there’s a neutron. An electron is a basic element by itself, so he just had these nothing little wavelets that aren’t even there.
They’re just reactive to a disturbance in the force that I felt the disturbance in the force, that’s all that’s happening at the quantum field level. Then they put those together and it builds every part of the universe. It’s not even there. How can you get upset about a wavelet? Named charms. Did you hear me?
That is quantum physics. That’s quantum field theory. There’s a thing called a standard model nowadays, and it just lays out the corks, the leptons, the boons, how they interact together, everything. It’s amazing. It’s so beautiful, but you don’t see that ’cause your corks left hands that make up your eyes when the consciousness looks out through them.
It’s like stepping back from the pixel on a TV screen. What happens? You’re up there real close, the kids, mommy, mommy, where’d the picture go? There’s nothing. There’s just a bunch of dots. Come and step back, step back, step back, and all of a sudden there’s a movie. That’s what you’ve done. You step back from looking down at what’s really there.
Is it okay if I talk to you like this? How can you have problems? I started this whole thing by explaining to you, you’re in here. You’re not out there. The only reason out there even comes in is because you have these things called senses. Sensors. There are sensors. They pick up sound, they pick up light, they pick up touch, they pick up, smell this.
Those are just chemicals in the air smell, but your sensors picks them up and send the message back to you. Why? So that you can know this is here. It’s God’s idea of Disney World. I made this whole thing for you. I hope you’re having fun. No, I am not. Why? Just for a moment go back up close to that screen.
I just took you there mentally. There’s nothing going on, but I did not live my life that way. I did not. I kept it way back. I stepped back and I saw people, places, things in male and female and old and young. And death and birth never, doesn’t makes sense, not physiologically. You can talk about the rest some of the day, but basically you got too close.
You, I said, you’re too close. You got too far away, and it looked like things. He looked like I’m 17, about to go to my high school prom and I have this zit on my chin. How do you know I’ve got this mirror that does 15 times magnification and I look in it Why? So that I can get upset. Well, I also need to look at the stupid things.
Are you hearing me? So your senses are adjusted. To see a certain level. You know, Einstein knew all of this. He wasn’t just smart in math and that kind of stuff, right? His theories, Einstein made a quote once, I love it, that says, reality is an illusion, although a very persistent one, if those atoms didn’t put themselves together the same way, then every time you wake up, it’s something new.
But it puts itself together. Those wavelets put themselves together the same. Isn’t that amazing? They put themselves together the same. So when you wake up and it’s still there, and so you get caught in the illusion, it’s persistent, and so you step back and what happened is as follows, you’re in here.
Let’s make believe you’re clean. You’re in here noticing that you’re in there and it’s really nice. Something happens outside, the vibration comes in, somebody yells at you. The vibration comes in, fine, it comes in. You get to experience. That’s why you have senses. You are not given senses so you can screw yourself up and be all upset.
You’re given senses because there’s a world out there kind of. There’s this dance going on out there and God thought it’s kind of neat. I’ll show you a movie. That’s what you’re being shown. Just every moment you’ll get to see something. You know, I love you, you’re my children. That’s my consciousness in there, by the way.
Alright, that my consciousness is gonna watch the movie that my consciousness created. I going into your dream. And you do a really weird thing, and this is really important. You understand this is the fall from the garden. I don’t care what else they tell you. So it’s all amazing. Adam and Eva walking around and things are happening and their colors and shapes, and they’re experiencing it.
Consciousness is experiencing all these experiences. It’s beautiful. It’s wonderful. Then what happened? Something came in and the consciousness itself. It got so drawn down to it that it took it personal. It looked at it and said, I don’t wanna be yelled at. What’s yelling? It’s just vibrations and energy.
They’re just vibrations in the air, but they come in and your consciousness, and this is, this is it. This is it. Your consciousness. That is really God consciousness. That’s the only one consci in the universe, but it focuses down and experiences what you’re experiencing through your senses. Fine. That’s what’s supposed to be happening, but it comes in and for some reason, you got too close.
And you didn’t like it? What does that mean? I didn’t like it. The vibration that came in, it didn’t feel good. So what did you do? You resisted it. Who resisted you? The indwelling consciousness. The awareness of being who’s in there? You resisted it. What’s that mean? You pushed it away with what? There’s this stuff called will ever have any will in there?
Can you push things away? Can you push things away that you don’t like being in there? Can you clinging if you like them being in there? Can you do things in there or are you just consciousness that’s aware of things? You are what’s called chich. Conscious energy. Conscious energy. That’s what they call God in the, in the Indian scriptures.
Chich, shati. It’s just the consciousness and the energy of the universe that is both creating everything. It’s all made outta that energy and it’s experiencing everything. It’s the same thing, just like in. I’ll get you back to physics. There’s a thing called electromagnetism. Ever heard of it? They didn’t know that before.
They thought there was electricity and magnetism for a long time. They studied magnetism, they stole electricity, and then all of a sudden, one day they realize they’re the same thing. If you look at it from this angle, it has the properties of magnetism. You look at it from this angle, has the properties of electricity.
They can create each other. You can create electricity outta magnetism. That’s a magneto. You can create magnet outta electricity. They’re the same. Alright, well, Shakti Energy, the underlying energy that Einstein said, it’s all energy. The energy of creating the universe and consciousness are the same thing that you, getting back to the depth of yoga.
It’s called Chi Shakti. Chi Shakti, conscious energy. It’s not energy, it’s not consciousness. They’re the same thing. Conscious energy. That’s what’s in there as you, God’s conscious energy looking at this. Looking through that. Okay. If what comes in, whatever reason, like, you know, butterfly like and dislikes the beginning of the whole mess, somehow you can’t handle it.
I don’t know what to say. It’s just part of life coming in through yourself. It’s something on the pixel screen. You step back, ah, it’s still just pixels, but you couldn’t handle it. The consciousness couldn’t let it come in, and so it used its energy to resist it. That is what will is. Will is focused consciousness.
When you are try to do math in your head, you need to concentrate what is concentration focused consciousness. If I take a magnifying glass and go out to the field where the sun is shining, the sun’s shining everywhere. Well, when I put that magnifying glass, there’s a fire starting under. It because it concentrated the power of the light and it became fire.
I, it was burned leaves. Okay? That’s what’s happening inside consciousness. Expansive consciousness is concentrating so deeply that it creates power. Then, neat. I’m give you the examples, the power. There’s no power. When I walk in the sunlight, I’m not getting burned. Normally it’s just sun. It’s lights, it’s light.
It’s just light. What in the world happens When I magnify it? I concentrate that light to where you see it really is energy. Light is energy, so you’re focusing that energy down on a leaf. It’s gonna catch fire. That is exactly what your willpower is. If you meditate deeply enough, at some point you’ll see it yourself.
It’s just open, expansive. But if you wanna think, you better concentrate on your thought. If an emotion comes in and goes by and you’re a deep meditation, I don’t know if they do or don’t, who cares? We’re not concentrating on them. If you then have a thought in deep meditation, it will take you outta meditation.
Why? Because you have to focus your awareness down like that, magnifying glass onto that thought. And if you don’t like that thought, you’ll resist that thought, which is what all the psychology is built on. That’s what Freud is. That’s what suppression is. That’s what repression is. That’s what denial is.
This thing came in from outside. I experienced it obviously, or I wouldn’t know it was there. And my power. The power of God, the power of consciousness. Concentrated on it. Why? It distracted me. It caught my attention. Let’s say some emotion of fear comes up in you. Does it distract you from what you’re doing at the moment?
You focused on it and in doing so, you resisted it. Anything you focus on, your will comes focused down, and what you tend to do is pushing away. I don’t like what you said. You’ll not talk to me like that. I guarantee you that the person who is talking and you pushed that away, the next time you see that person, you will not feel the same as you felt before they talked to you that way.
Three years later, high school reunion 20 years later. Why you kept it kept what? This? Nothing. These dots. These little wavelets that came in and I resisted them. Anything you resist is still in there. Even the littlest thing. Go to Hawaii and have it be 105 degrees for whatever reason you don’t like Hawaii anymore.
And if somebody years later somebody proposes to you and go to a honeymoon, I wanna go to Hawaii. No, I don’t wanna go to Hawaii. It’s hot there. Once two days it was hot. You now know all about Hawaii. You know what they teach you and they’re wrong. First impressions are the most important thing. Are you kidding me?
I’m gonna meet him after his father died and he ate bad pieces the night before and he is not in a good mood and he is not behaving in a very reasonable way. Three years later, you wanna see George? Nah, I’ve already met him. I know what he is like. And you do it all the time. Every single thing with everything.
Go to Arizona and have a rattlesnake cross the road. I ain’t moving here. There’s snakes here. There’s snakes everywhere. Just ’cause you happen to see a snake. Is it rational? No. Is it absurd? Yes. Is it screwing your life up completely. So these impressions come in and you have the ability. To resist. I don’t want to have seen that snake, but you did.
But I don’t want to have, I’m in a state of denial. I never saw a snake in my entire life. That’s the whole layer of psychology. Take a breath. This is a spiritual discussion. Way more than the light and the angels. Why? This is why you’re not with God. Not try to understand something about God. So you have resisted stuff that came in through your senses and you stored it in there, and what’d you do with it then?
I played with it. What do you mean you played with it? I took this part that I didn’t like and that part that I did like, and I glued them together and I developed this concept of myself. I’m the person that likes this. How do you know? Because I had the experience. At that moment just, it could have been different anything than I had this experience and I didn’t like it, and I put them all together and I built a me.
Is it you? No, it’s not you. You are the one that had the experience. You’re the one who resisted the experience. You built this thing called ego. That’s what you did in there with the stuff that you resisted. How do you know? I resisted it because if it didn’t resist it, it wouldn’t be in there anymore. It could be in your long-term memory.
You can bring it back. A computer has a long-term memory, but the computer doesn’t pop that stuff up by itself, but not inside of you. The stuff comes up by itself, doesn’t it? Can things that happened 20 years ago bother you? Now? Can emotions come back up? That’s what it’s like to live in there. Now. You can’t live in there.
There’s a mess in there, but you have a solution. I’m not stupid if that was just coming in from the outside. It is what I decided. I want to come in from the outside. I’m happiest, can be. I’m the happiest kid I’ve ever lived, and if what’s coming from the outside is what I really don’t want coming in. I’m depressed and I’m unhappy.
And I’m miserable. Well, what’s the solution? Control the pixels, control the wavelengths, the weather, what people say, oh my God, it’s so complicated. They’re playing 16,000 dimension chess. So you’re sitting there saying, the way to be okay in here is to go out there and manipulate the outside so that there is no one out there yelling at you.
So everyone out there says, oh my God, I love you so much. You’re so beautiful. Oh, you’re more beautiful than less how I saw you. Hell like that look like you gained some weight. How dare you talk to me like that. Every single thing that comes in from the outside hits the stuff you stored inside. And it either makes you feel good inside, makes you feel bad inside, and they teach you.
They all teach you. Get the world the way you want it, decide what you want and go make it happen. How? Anything, any way you want. There’s anything you can, have you noticed that some people try to get things the way they want, right? Have you noticed some? Some people really react when things aren’t the way they want and they try to make ’em be the way they want.
That include you, okay? Wow. That’s not very spiritual. That’s the fall from the garden guys. What happened when you ate of the tree of self knowledge, meaning I’ve now identified with the world as part of myself instead of just something I’m in here experiencing. I said, it’s mine. My car, my child, my face, my body, my life, my, you understand that that, I mean, mind thing is what the ego built.
That’s what you built in there and now you’re staring at it. You’re stare at it to where your entire life is about. You. See, I say that. You say, well, of course it’s about me. What are you talking about? There’s stars, there’s galaxies, there’s billions of, there’s atoms. Oh my God, there’s so much. No, it’s about me.
All of them are about me. If I sit there and teach, by the way, that there’s nothing out there, but galaxies and quantum field and all that kind of stuff, right? When you teach Santa Fe way back a long time ago, I taught night classes to people coming back to school, but I still teach the same thing. It was back in 72, 74 something like in seven five.
I had someone come up to me, he said, I, I’m coming back to get a degree, an AA degree, and I have a family. I don’t understand what any of this stuff has to do with me. I will never forget that turns me on. Well, of course it has nothing to do with you. The atoms and the things and all the people and psychology.
There’s nothing to do with you. It has to do with you is what? What’s putting food on the table? What I like, what I don’t like my family. Understand that. In other words, your consciousness, you would live in there whose God has expanded the entire universe. That’s who you are living in there. You’re staring at your ego so much that everything that comes in only has to do with you.
It does not. Whereas an enlightened being, that’s exactly what enlightening means is they’re not staring at themselves. Christ said, you must die to be reborn. You have to die of this personal self that you built in there. This concept that what it’s about is me, so that everything that comes in either I like it, I don’t like it, and I’m supposed to be out there making it be the way I want, et cetera, as opposed to there’s a different solution.
If you’re not okay with what’s going on in the world outside, why don’t you take a look at who’s not okay. Somebody’s in a bad mood, their father or die, they had pizza wrong, and then they’re not behaving very nicely around you. There’s two possible solutions. One, hit ’em. Run away. Do something. Fight or flight, right?
Or take a look inside. See what it is that it is bothering, and question, why is this person’s problem bothering me? I am not this person. I have my problems. He has his problems. Is that okay? You better say yes. Why? Because it’s reality. It’s reality. People have stuff just like you do, but it’s not the same stuff as yours, is it?
They’re the, some of the learned experiences, everything they held in there. Therefore, they’re gonna be completely different than you. I told you one of the biggest. Jokes in the world is when you say, how could you do that? I would never have done that. I can’t believe you did that. Well, you haven’t had the experience I had.
You didn’t build the ego. I have. You don’t have the self-concept. I have. You don’t have anything even close to me. So what right do you have to judge me? What Christ say? Judge not, not be judge. What is it? Third then Pat. I teach cease the burdensome process of judging. Do you see how it all ties together?
It’s all because you fell from your seat of divine consciousness. By resisting and controlling and building this ego, this, this mindset that you have in there. Then deciding it’s who you are. That’s who I am, and then going out there and trying to manipulate everything outside. That’s why there’s war.
That’s why the people do terrible things. At some point, you understand why every single thing is the way it is. What do you do about it? I have a few minutes left. The path itself is simple. How you doing in there? Eh? How do you wanna do in there? I’d like it to be nice. I’d like to feel love when all the time.
No, you can only feel love if you find just the right person who behaves just the way you want them to. All the time. You want them to do it. No, I don’t wanna live like that. If I’m capable of feeling love and I am, I have to look and see. Why don’t I feel love? Because you’re sitting there judging everything.
’cause you’re sitting there wanting everything to be exactly the way your egos. You can only feel love when ego says you can. I’m gonna challenge you. You can only feel love when your ego says you can. What do you mean? Well, my uncle used to slurp soup and I really, really didn’t like it at all, and I’m dating this person.
I really liked him. Oh my God, I didn’t know this slrp soup. I don’t have anything to do with him. But you fell in love before that made you not feel love. Yes. Well, what if you decide that what your life is about is not getting everything the way your ego that you built in there at once, but it’s about getting rid of that thing.
I wanna feel love unconditionally. I wanna love you as much. If you were in a bad mood and you came back and were a schnuck when you came home, I wanna love you the same. I don’t care, but I don’t make believe. I love you. I want to actually love you. Then you have to look and see that when the world comes in and we call it hit your stuff, you got stuff in there.
When the world comes in, hit your stuff. You have to decide, do I wanna blame the world? Push it away, yell at it, fight with it never happened again, or get rid of my stuff, can you? The only reason it stays in there, ’cause you held it in there. There’s nothing solid in there. There’s nothing solid in there.
All there is is your will and your will made things solid by fighting the energy and pushing it away. If you are willing, there’s your will for something meaningful to let go of what you stored in there from the past. You can unconditionally be fine in there ’cause that is your natural. Unconditional love, unconditional wellbeing.
We’re talking about the energy in there. You’re gonna see the energy flow as conditional upon your thoughts. You can think of thought and feel energy. You can think of thought and feel no energy. You get depressed instantaneously. So your thoughts and your emotions are blocking your energy flow. The more you let go of yourself, the more you are willing to sit there and say, this bothered me.
I don’t want it to bother me, not, I don’t want it to happen. Reality always wins. You can’t undo reality. It happened. Okay, accept it. Now you get to acceptance, surrender. These are the deep inner words, and you start practicing. It won’t happen all at once. You start practicing. It’s raining out. I don’t like it.
You don’t have to not like it, but I don’t like it. That’s ’cause it rained on your birthday and your cake melted when you were five. You stored stuff in there. Otherwise, the farmer loves the rain. Can you love the rain? Can you hate the rain? You’re deciding everything in there and so you start doing what’s called work on yourself.
How If it bothers me, I am gonna let go of why it bothers me instead of trying to make it so it never, and I know good your relationship would be. And instead of people bothering you, you sit there and say, well, it bothered me and I don’t want it to bother me. Can you? Yeah. Start letting go. You just, like I said, to me, one word I learned through all 55 years of my growth.
Right. Relax. That’s the word. That’s the highest spiritual word you’ll ever hear. What do you mean? It came in? It hit my stuff. I started to tense and fight and resist, relax. How do I do that? Relax. Go into an asana and feel it. Get tense. The teacher will tell you, just relax. Relax into it. Relax. Let it pass.
But no buts. You wanna feel love all the time. Let go. You know, I feel peace all the time. Let go. And what happens? All of a sudden, this energy that I said you had that was being messed up and conditioned upon your thoughts and emotions is no longer conditioned upon your thoughts and emotions. And all of a sudden all this energy starts flowing inside of you, and it always flows up, not down.
It used to flow down to manipulate and control. Now it’s starting to flow up ti spirit, it starts flowing up and it’s intoxicating. It’s beautiful. Now we’re ready for God. Now we can use the word because now you experience God. It’s not a philosophy, it’s an experience. You feel the spirit, you feel the shati flowing inside of you.
Okay, that’s nice, but can it get more? Let go more? Well, what if something really bad happens? Good. That’s a wonderful opportunity to find about it. Letting go of big things. You always let go first, always. And the shock to get stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger until eventually it never changes direction.
It will not go back down, period. And it’s always lifting you, raising you. What did Christ say? Man does not live or bread alone, but by every word that leaves the mouth of God. That’s the Shakti. In other words, you’re not living off what’s happening outside. You’re living off what’s happening inside, and you’re all capable of it, except you’re playing around with your stuff there.
We had a spiritual discussion. You can do this. You just step by step, play with it. Let go. Have fun. Make it a video game inside. I can handle this. I can handle this. Every single thing. I can handle this. You can handle it. You let it go. Alright, we’re gonna work on ourselves. And some people say, but isn’t that selfish to only be working on yourself?
No, I don’t think so. I think if you get yourself together and you’re much nicer, everybody around you, you raise the whole world with you, don’t you? Alright.
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